Books like The Thorn Birds
12 books with a reading profile close to The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, Colleen McCullough. Clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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A Girl Called Samson
by Amy Harmon
Also clear-cut · history, romance
Deborah Samson, an indentured servant in late eighteenth-century Massachusetts, secures her freedom only to encounter the limitations placed on women during the American Revolution.
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Water for Elephants
Also clear-cut · history, romance
Ninety-three-year-old Jacob Jankowski lives in a nursing home, recalling his sudden departure from Cornell University during the Great Depression.
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The Boleyn Inheritance
Also clear-cut and escapist · history, romance
Philippa Gregory’s novel follows three women navigating the treacherous final years of Henry VIII's reign.
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The Giver of Stars
by Jojo Moyes
Also clear-cut · history, romance
Set in Depression-era Kentucky, Alice Wright marries a handsome American to escape her stifling life in England, only to find herself trapped in a rigid, judgmental coal town.
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The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
Also clear-cut · history, romance
Marjorie Merriweather Post inherits his father’s Postum Cereal Company at age twenty-seven, transforming a modest family business into the massive General Foods corporation.
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At the Water's Edge
by Sara Gruen
Also clear-cut · history, romance
Set against the backdrop of the Scottish Highlands during the height of World War II, this historical novel follows Ellis and Maddie Hyde, an elite socialite couple searching for the Loch Ness Monster.
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7
Making Faces
by Amy Harmon
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Set in a small town in Pennsylvania, the story follows Fern Taylor, a quiet girl who grows up in the shadow of Ambrose Young, the local wrestling star.
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Summer of '69
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, narrative
The narrative follows the Foley and Levin families during a summer of significant social upheaval on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard.
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Looking for Jane
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Set against the backdrop of Toronto from the 1970s to the 2010s, this novel follows three women linked by a clandestine network providing illegal abortions.
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10
A Hundred Summers
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, narrative
In the summer of 1938, the privileged Lily and her former best friend Violet reconnect at Lily's lavish Long Island estate.
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Boy Meets Boy
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Paul Ames lives in a fictional town where being gay is unremarkable, the high school homecoming queen is a star quarterback named Infinite Darlene, and the Boy Scouts are inclusive.
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The Sandcastle Girls
Also clear-cut · history, romance
In 1915, Elizabeth Endicott travels from Boston to Aleppo with a relief committee to provide food and medical aid to Armenian refugees.
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